Top 490 Nature Quotes

Nature Quotes: Celebrating the Beauty, Wisdom, and Healing Power of the Natural World

Embracing the Wonders of Nature: Quotes that Connect Us to the Earth

Nature has a way of captivating our hearts and minds, reminding us of the beauty, resilience, and wisdom that exists in the world around us. In this collection of nature quotes, we celebrate the awe-inspiring landscapes, the harmonious rhythms of the natural world, and the profound lessons we can learn from Mother Earth. These quotes capture the essence of nature, offering inspiration, tranquility, and a reminder to cherish and protect our precious environment.

Embracing the Healing Power of Nature: Quotes to Reconnect with the Earth

Allow these nature quotes to transport you to serene landscapes, awaken your senses, and deepen your connection with the natural world. Draw inspiration from the words of poets, philosophers, naturalists, and environmentalists who have recognized the profound impact that nature has on our well-being. Reflect on their wisdom, embrace the healing power of the great outdoors, and cultivate a sense of awe and gratitude for the wonders of nature that surround us.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
Samuel Daniel
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.
Roscoe Mitchell
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Ray Kurzweil
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we’ve said it exists does not really exist in nature.
Nicole Maines
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Michael Faraday
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos
By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.
Rohit Shetty
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
Gerard Way
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
My nature just changes.

My nature just changes.
Jimi Hendrix
I love the relentless nature of a side that never gives up.
Sean Dyche
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.
Larry Wilcox
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
Anthony Hopkins
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
William Cullen Bryant
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
Rudolf Steiner
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Kate Winslet
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
Simon Sinek
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
Karolina Kurkova
The groves were God’s first temples.
William Cullen Bryant
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
We must return to nature and nature’s god.
Luther Burbank
Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
Neri Oxman
There is the sky, which is all men’s together.
Euripides
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.
Frederick William Faber
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob Dylan
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.
Louie Schwartzberg